Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-06
THE WEST.

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by the Northern Pacific railway, Will De
thrown open to settlers after December /.
r A. Love, of Baxter Springs, Kan,
was in Washington on the Goth and called
upon Acting Secretary of the Interior Mul-
drow in regard to the proposed allotment
of land to Indians about the QuapaW
agency and the selection Of special agent
for that purpose. .
JrnGE FRENCH has rendered decision in
the mixed schools question at Fort Scout,
Kan. that the matter is in the hands or the
educational authorities. The colored peo-
pie had brought a test case for the purpose
of forcing the mixed system ana Judge
French refused the writ OF mandamus ap-
piled for.
DIR. HOWARD DOUGLASS, OF Cincinnati,
supreme chancellor of the knights OF
Pythias, has appointed Thomas =. =" nl1e,
of lebanon, Tenn, supreme keeper OF
records and seal of the order of Knight Of
Pvthias, to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the death OF Hon. r. E. Cowan, of st. Louis.
The Chicago, Burlington & Northern
railway proposes to leave the Western and
Northwestern Freight Bureau. This Is ex-
pected to lead to a serious rate war.
DIR. EDWARD ST. JOHN, of Chicago, under
Indictment for aiding Boodler McGarigle's
escape has been placed in jail, his bond not
being considered good enough.
THE meeting of the G. a. R. at st. Louis
was greatly marred by wet weather.
Much discomfort was experienced by the
veterans, some of the proceedings having
to be postponed.
In consequence of the late protracted
drought, the tobacco crops were cut short
over half in the region around Evans
vile, Ind, and the frost injured the grow
ing tobacco still further about ten per cent,
so that it is estimated there will be only
obi hjr6n of Potatoes
an entire failure. Corn in very bad con-
dition.
Two women of Duluth, Mimi, were chloro-
formed and robbed of g, 255 worth of dia-
monds the other night.
THREE children were suffocated by fire
in Frank Hooks house at Muskegou, Mich,
the other night.
THE parade of the G. A. r. came off at
st. Louis on the 2Sth. The effect was
greatly married by the drenchlng rain
which prevented many of the veterans
joining in the procession.
GEORGE L. ZEIGLER was found dead at
Dayton, O., recently, after drinking all the
whisky another man would agree to pay
for. Zeigler took twenty-five drinks.
FIRE at Payne, Paulding County, o., the
other day, destroyed a row OF business
houses. Loss, $4,000; partially insured.
THE elevator at Wheatland, Oak, con-
Gently.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAINS proposed wood
cock and champagne banquet to the Chicago
Anarchists has been declared off, the Jail
officials refusing to allow 1t.
A SHORT time ago William Richmond and
Sadie Jameson were publicly married at
the county fair at Youngstown, O., by
Pennsylvania preacher. The marriage has
been declared illegal, as the clergyman had
not procured license.
A PLow manufacturers trust was formed
at Chicago recently, about thirty Western
and Northwestern manufacturers signing
the agreement. The trust will exercise the
usual ironclad restriction on the trade.
JUDGE NJ CALIsTER, of the Chicago court
has refused writ of habeas corpus to
Doodle Commissioner Wren on the ground
that the technicality urged was worthless.
ADAM RUSSELL and John Clark, cow
boys, INDUCED in a shooting affair in Okla
homa the other day. Both were probably
fatally wounded.
ACCORDING TO the first report of the re-
ceiver of Swan Bros, cattlemen of
Cheyenne, Wyo, the liabilities are SS0S, 999
and the assets $685., $50.
Mrs. Cotton, widow of General Cotton,
of California, denies that the famous let
tiers written by c. p. Huntington to her
husband were purloined and offered for
sale by her agents.
THE Polish Roman Catholic Union, in
session in Chicago, has boycotted Social
istic Polish weekly newspapers.
THE box factory of Maxwell Bros. and
other buildings in Chicago were destroyed
by fire recently, involving considerable
loss.
BY the falling of derrick at the brewery
of w. j. Lemp, at st. Louis, recently, Dan
iel Dinners was killed, Ferdinand Neumann
fatally wounded and four other workmen
seriously injured. The men fell sixty five
feet.
MCFEELY, station agent of the Manitoba
road at Moorhead, Mimi. has been held un-
der 81, 900 bonds to answer to the charge of
violating the Interstate Commerce law
Merely had refused to transfer wheat
from the Manitoba to the Northern Pacific
tracks